Gajanan Govindwar

About Gajanan Govindwar

Over 18+ Years of experience in IT with CMMI-5 organizations like Persistent Systems and Wipro Technologies• ICP ACC certified Agile coach and SAFe SASM, PMI-ACP, CSM certified lean agile practitioner, experience in driving Scrum, Kanban, BDD and XP practices in various roles including Agile Coach and Consultant in various scaling framework including SAFe, Spotify way of working• Experience in conducting assessment of current state of agile implementation and setting up a coaching plan as well waterfall to Agile Transformation roadmaps • Collaborate with business, Technical leadership, RTE and teams to provide coaching on PI planning, Release train activities, mid PI correction, Inspect and Adapt and other pre and post ceremony activities • Created and conducted customized training courses for Scrum Master, Product owner, Architects and Agile Team for various client, to overcome the challenges faced by the program• Foreign Onsite Experience- Worked with top banking clients like Capital One Bank and Credit Suisse in USA for 6 years• Experience of leading and driving agile teams of varying natures including feature teams, prod support in robotic process automation, cloud migration, AI-ML teams• Mentoring and providing directions to teams on agile ceremonies and helping to manage cross team dependencies, resolving impediments, identifying suitable Metrics• Admin level Expertise in JIRA and Version-one to create and manage Scrum /Kanban Dashboards• Knowledge of various CICD tools/applications including GITHub, Jenkins, Cucumber• Knowledge of alternative scaling agile frameworks/model like Nexus, Scrum@Scale, LeSS, SpotifyFew Highlights from recent programs:• Problem Solving workshop : Event Program Increment Planning :for major Telescopy client-Successfully conducted ‘Problem Solving’ workshop. Facilitated problem definition, Root Cause Analysis using ‘Fish bone’ technique, Conducting vote to identify major causes and encouraged team to brainstorm to present solution• Building Robust FDA documentation mechanism for Reputed Hospital Chain in USA- Being an agile coach, worked with team and management to build end to end documentation updatation and review mechanism• Addressing Architectural challenges in agile way - Creation of training modules for Architects and Product owner to address various architectural and design challenges through agile way. • Cross Agile Release Train collaboration to achieve Federal timeline Leading Bank in USA Eastern coast– KYC automation program spanning multiple ART

Experience

1. Principal Consultant Agile Process Coach

   Wipro

   Jun 2021 — Present · Pune, IN

   Agile Transformation Strategic Plan implementation – Creating Agile Maturity Roadmap in line with Agile Principles PODs. Empowering Crew Leads, and SMs with all the knowledge to implement the roadmap. Ongoing coaching through small interventions to ensure implementation • Improvement in quality of Pod/Crew Ceremonies –Participating as a ‘Silent Observer’ in ceremonies to identify improvement areas and suggest best practices in line with the Organizational Agile model• Ongoing coaching on Scrum, Kanban, and Spotify scaling to Crews and PODs to support Agile Transformation from Waterfall/Adhoc Agile to Agile scaling • Benchmarking/current state identification: Agile Maturity Assessment, analyzing the result and identifying focus area in line with Agile Values and Principles.• Agile Clinics, Forums - Supported 10+ clinics, coaching actual problems faced by roles and PODs on DoR, DoD, Cross-functional teams, Scaling model, Product backlog, Metrics• Role-based training - for Scrum Master, Product Owner, and Crew Leads • POD/crew restructuring - Providing guidance to Crew and stream lead on POD restructuring and elevating their knowledge about Component and Feature POD• Agile COP/Chapter/Guilds– Collaborating with other Agile Coaches (client Associates) on various initiatives, small interventions, articles, sessions on various agile topics, collateral buildings, supporting talent acquisitionArticle Link:

Education

• Shri Guru Gobind Singhji Institute of Engineering and Technology, Vishnupuri, Nanded

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electronics engineering

• Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

• Doctor Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University

  BE, Electronics

Skills

• Test Planning
• Soapui
• Program Planning
• Scaled Agile Framework
• Test Cases
• Amazon S3
• Hp Application Lifecycle Management
• Testing
• Lean Thinking
• Agile Project Management
• Amazon Rds
• Pmi
• Jira Admin
• Unix Shell Scripting
• Kanban
• Test Strategy
• Safe
• Atdd
• Test Management
• Qtp
• Sql
• Manual Testing
• Quality Center
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Software Project Management
• Amazon Ec2
• Cucumber
• Scrum
• Behavior-Driven Development (Bdd)
• Iteration Planning
• Coach Agile Team
• Test Automation
• Oracle
• Aws Ec2